Grant awarded to cross-disciplinary projects
To support and promote scientific interactions between researchers from different organizations and disciplines, 8 collaborative projects are now awarded funding, as part of the PALS program.
The national Program for Academic leaders in Life Science (PALS) is a network for SciLifeLab Fellows, SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) Fellows & Wallenberg Centres for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) Fellows, representing researchers from ten Swedish universities and the Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet).
PALS offers excellent opportunities for experimental and computational scientists to meet in order to establish multi-disciplinary collaborations. The program is anticipated to contribute to strong national networks that could last for years to come and that will broadly enrich opportunities for excellence in life science.
PALS is co-funded by a SEK 20 million grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2024-2028), supporting a deep and broad national multidisciplinary research community that creates powerful links and synergies in life science.
Hear more about the program from Research Coordinator Disa Larsson Hammarlöf in this video ↓
List of awarded PALS grants 2025
Gisele Miranda (SciLifeLab fellow at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan KTH) & Avlant Nilsson (DDLS fellow at Karolinska Institute)
Linking Omics and Images with Deep Learning to Decode Cellular Responses | 313 152 SEK
Claudio Cantù (WCMM fellow) Linköping Universitet, Silvia Remeseiro (WCMM fellow) Umeå University
The PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics – Edition 2 | 350 000 SEK
Emil Marklund (SciLifeLab fellow at Stockholm University) & Robert Månsson Welinder (SciLifeLab Infrastructure, National Genomics Infrastructure) & Anja Mezger (SciLifeLab Infrastructure, National Genomics Infrastructure)
Porting HiTS-FLIP to the AVITI24: Providing automated high-throughput screening of biomolecular interactions | 372 800 SEK
Erik Benson (SciLifeLab fellow at Karolinska Institute) & Katarina Tiklova (SciLifeLab Infrastructure, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University)
Simultaneous mapping of proteins and transcripts by aptamer integration in In Situ Sequencing | 372 800 SEK
Luisa W Hugerth (DDLS fellow at Uppsala University) & George Birchenough (WCMTM fellow at University of Gothenburg)
Breaking the Barrier: Microbial Interactions with Vaginal Mucus | 372 800 SEK
Karin Tran-Lundmark (WCMM fellow at Lund University) & Katarina Tiklova (SciLifeLab Infrastructure, In Situ Sequencing unit)
Integrating Synchrotron Phase-Contrast Micro-CT and In Situ Sequencing for 3D Spatial Transcriptomics | 372 800 SEK
Vinay Swaminathan (WCMM fellow at Lund University) & Daniel Öhlund (WCMM fellow at Umeå University)
Role of the mechanical tumor microenvironment in shaping CAF heterogeneity and cancer cell phenotype | 372 799 SEK
Andrea Fossati (DDLS fellow at Karolinska Institute) & Erik Benson (SciLifeLab fellow at Karolinska Institute)
Discovery of Anti-Virulence Peptides Through DNA-Encoded Pattern Selection | 372 800 SEK
